bach and handel's works are my all time favourite.
some mozart, haydn, along side with vivaldi. pachelbel.the baroque exuberance.
rachmaninoff once in a while, alternate chopin, tchaikovsky.
but--this particular piece--by beethoven. i never liked him. i skipped his pieces in my highschool piano days. i will only play bach's little book for anna magdalena up to that piece "gavotte in d" i never reached his complicated "fugues" and "gavottes" though. regrets, i have so many.
but as i sensed up in the whirlwind over the years, i was struck by this at the univ.'s fine arts gallery. the kids --well my fourth year students have this in the i-tunes with the incubus, cold play, etc...they would listen to this "pathetique" piece and my heart will melt.
this is different. i could die with this. it can reach me in the deepest ocean floor where i would shut myself against pain.
i wish i discovered this one years ago so i could have practiced it instead of running crazy over those pieces on-- ice castles "looking through the eyes of love", "raindrops keep fallin on my head" "if" "can you read my mind" "the greatest love of all" ... thingyyy..demmet...--but then, highschool is highschool.
now that summer classes is approaching, i will sneak and bribe the keeper of the university chapel where there is the baby grand and practice this piece to death
in between classes and vacant periods. the old piano which we have in our old house had been years and years ago sold by my mother--for no one plays it anymore when each of us pursued our own selfish desires. and missing that 8 octave traditional piano, i bought in two at different times. a spoof one--the cheapy--whats that--4 octaves electric piano just so to be able to play my favourite ones from the past. and now its broken.
sigh... you'll never really treasure something unless its gone...
no, i would never wish you a pathetique weekend, but an exuberant one.
have an exuberant weekend!
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